From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Feb 18 13:11:17 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2E34616A407 for ; Sun, 18 Feb 2007 13:11:17 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from x_element108@btinternet.com) Received: from smtp805.mail.ukl.yahoo.com (smtp805.mail.ukl.yahoo.com [217.12.12.195]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8D98E13C4A7 for ; Sun, 18 Feb 2007 13:11:16 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from x_element108@btinternet.com) Received: (qmail 97585 invoked from network); 18 Feb 2007 12:44:34 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=btinternet.com; h=Received:X-YMail-OSG:Message-ID:Date:From:User-Agent:MIME-Version:To:Subject:X-Enigmail-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=SgGCrxsftXuANWSknhPZNx0T+fh0QUjTWhNRpOCXDRG9/AC+oVSPqs8R3CFyVyHqK9Hv+uAqEGoHFYYEC1s0vG/wQulg59LA7/NlL6FZLnhXX5XvHn0cOTZnNSxwb0PYVTuviXMOjJSj/wQC85V+PiqYelbA8eWtDWQ/dR4VnIo= ; Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.1.67?) (x_element108@btinternet.com@86.133.112.228 with plain) by smtp805.mail.ukl.yahoo.com with SMTP; 18 Feb 2007 12:44:33 -0000 X-YMail-OSG: hENpdk4VM1nWjxfhGmVKkhEvC9j9YAPzcTMn1cF7PkuZu55Fb7KFdgLgnBW1MTrjaCl0rNcXl1kn4G_T.77HMNkv3oVAKoUSdjw1t3twGUteftlVApoOAZ9.zG0tRRBn6qsJztBEmhw- Message-ID: <45D84A12.8060302@btinternet.com> Date: Sun, 18 Feb 2007 12:44:02 +0000 From: "Rajen Jani (BT Yahoo! Broadband)" User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.9 (Windows/20061207) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Enigmail-Version: 0.92.0.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Permission Denied X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 18 Feb 2007 13:11:17 -0000 Hello everyone, I have installed FreeBSD clean from start but everytime I try to do something like say run ./configure on my home directory, I get the "permission denied" message. Can anyone help me please. When i type in "su rajen" it seems to log me in but it doesn't ask me for the root password. Thanks Rajen